But my informant could elucidate neither (a) why a naming
rule for files should be applied to elements in SGML, nor (b)
why IBM even had this naming rules for files.
If it's related to IBM file names (wash my mouth, I mean dataset names), I
would have expected to see the length of an ID restricted to 8 characters!
I seem to recall hearing some other theory about non-name IDs becoming
ambiguous if you adopted one of SGML's many ways of abbreviating tags - but
that's only a vague memory.
Regards,
Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/
http://twitter.com/michaelhkay
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